San Jose Earthquakes at New York Red Bulls
Kickoff: 4 p.m. PT at Red Bull Arena, Harrison, N.J.
Television: Comcast SportsNet Plus, MSG+
Radio: 1590 KLIV (English), 1370 KZSF (Spanish)
Places to Watch
- Watch the Earthquakes play the New York Red Bulls this Saturday, April 14, from 4-6 p.m. PT at TPC Stonebrae in Hayward. The Quakes are hosting an official viewing party at the PGA TOUR-sanctioned TPC Stonebrae Championship. Quakes players Jacob Hustedt and Evan Newton, along with the Shakers squad, will be in attendance signing autographs and mingling with fans. Click HERE for more information.
- Jack’s Bar & Lounge (San Jose), Hyde Park Lounge (San Jose), Double D’s Sports Grille (Los Gatos), Danny Coyle’s (San Francisco), SF Soccer Cafe (San Francisco)
New York Red Bulls Scouting Report
The red-hot New York Red Bulls have won three straight games in commanding fashion by an aggregate score of 13-4 since an 0-2 start to the 2012 season.
Star French forward Thierry Henry tops MLS with his seven goals, and is second on the league chart with his team-best four assists. His striking partner, 6-foot-3 target man Kenny Cooper, has also made a huge impact with six goals of his own in his first season at the club after stints with FC Dallas and the Portland Timbers. Both players registered two-goal braces during a 4-1 win in the Red Bulls’ most recent match at the Columbus Crew on April 7. The duo thus duplicated their double-brace effort from another 4-1 decision for their first victory of the campaign at home against the Colorado Rapids on March 25. Overall for this three-game win streak, Henry and Cooper have accounted for 12 of the Red Bulls’ 13 goals, and 13 of 14 on the year.
In a 5-2 home defeat of the Montreal Impact on March 31, Henry produced his first MLS hat trick. The 34-year-old veteran of four FIFA World Cup tournaments has earned three straight MLS Player of the Week nods, becoming the first in league history to do so. In his third season in MLS with the Red Bulls, Henry now has 23 goals in 42 appearances.
Swedish head coach Hans Backe is in his third season in charge of New York.
Of Note
- Saturday night’s match between San Jose and New York will feature a showdown between top MLS strikers Chris Wondolowski, Thierry Henry and Kenny Cooper. Wondolowski recorded his second two-goal brace already of the 2012 season in a come-from-behind 3-1 home win over Vancouver Whitecaps FC on April 7, increasing his team-leading total to six through five games. He is tied with Cooper for second on the league scoring chart, one behind Henry. In fact, all three players scored two goals apiece in their teams’ wins last Saturday.
- Eighth-year Earthquakes head coach Frank Yallop is just one away from 100 regular-season wins in his MLS career, which also includes a two-year stint with the LA Galaxy in 2006-07. Yallop is 99-96-69 (.506) as an MLS head coach in regular-season matches. He ranks sixth on the all-time MLS chart in wins, behind Sigi Schmid (159), Bruce Arena (129), Bob Bradley (124), Steve Nicol (112) and former pupil Dominic Kinnear (102). He would become just the sixth coach in MLS history to reach the 100-win plateau.
- San Jose last won a regular-season match at New York on May 7, 2005 (1-0), going 0-4-0 since then, including a 3-0 defeat last year on April 16. These teams also faced off at Red Bull Arena in the 2010 MLS Cup Playoffs on Nov. 4, 2010, however, with the Earthquakes knocking off top-seeded New York, 3-1, with Chris Wondolowski’s 81st-minute goal assuring the Quakes of continuing their improbable postseason run that year in advancing 3-2 on aggregate to the Eastern Conference Championship.
- Saturday night’s meeting will be the only one of the regular season between San Jose and New York as per the league’s unbalanced schedule in 2012.
More Quakes-New York Red Bulls Connections
- Quakes captain Ramiro Corrales played parts of three seasons for the New York/New Jersey MetroStars, appearing in 56 games with five assists from 1998-2000.
- Quakes midfielder Simon Dawkins was born and raised in Edgware, England, an area of London, where Red Bulls striker Thierry Henry starred for Arsenal Football Club from 1999-2007 and is the club’s all-time leading goal-scorer with 229 in all competitions.
- Quakes midfielder Khari Stephenson and New York midfielder Dane Richards have both played for the Jamaican national team. Stephenson appeared in 25 matches in 2007-08 for AIK of the Swedish Allsvenskan in Stockholm, Sweden, where current Red Bulls head coach Hans Backe was in charge from 1994-95.
- The Quakes’ Turkish forward, Sercan Guvenisik, who missed the past two games through a hip injury but rejoined training on April 10 and is accompanying the team to New York, heads to the region of the U.S. that has the highest population of Turks, with over 35,000 estimated in New York and New Jersey states.
- Quakes midfielder Marvin Chavez and New York midfielder Dax McCarty played together at FC Dallas in 2009-10. Earthquakes goalkeeper Jon Busch and Red Bulls defender Wilman Conde played together with the Chicago Fire from 2007-09.
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